This is a discussion on ---<{{{The Official Wagon Thread}}}>--- within the Exterior & Appearance forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; the latest from Mr Burnsie....
Jamie
Wagons Rule!!...

wagone: In short, the rack wasn't going to fit with the spoiler. They were fork mounts with the forks mounting just behind the front crossbar, so the rear wheels extend too far back and also would hit the gate. I looked at cutting some of the wheeltrays off, but then it would be too short for the mountain bikes... okay for the road bikes though.

Rubber against the hatch is better than metal wheeltray scraping the hatch, but some people simply mount the trays and bikes backwards.

2005 World Rally Blue WRX SportwagonBiatch totalled my 2002 WRB WRX SportwagonI miss my bugeye.
Image is nothing, performance is everything. All your rice be ownz by us.
If you're not going to spend your money on women or alcohol, you might as well spend it on cars.

Here's my wagon with my rig on the roof.
There's nothing like biking on rough, dirty trails and coming back beat half to death.

e-man-wrx, I found an example of reverse mounting on page 3 of this thread.

2005 World Rally Blue WRX SportwagonBiatch totalled my 2002 WRB WRX SportwagonI miss my bugeye.
Image is nothing, performance is everything. All your rice be ownz by us.
If you're not going to spend your money on women or alcohol, you might as well spend it on cars.

Thanks WTypeRogerX, just when I thought I had scoured this thread... must have had wheels on my mind and skipped that photo mentally.

I have considered the backwards mounting as well. I'm also looking at this solution too http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=218717 It relocates the front crossbar mounting points further forward and has a more minimal appearance with no crossbars sticking out the sides. It is nearly identical to how the Subaru E3610AS802 Upright Bike Trays mount to the flat crossbars, but replaces them with fork mounts.

And Jarex definately has a nice set of wheels for his white wagon.

Oh yeah, it wouldn't be right not to gush about SubieGalRacing's pictures... the top one with gravel and dirt flying looks awesome

I tried it first without the fairing and anything 50 mph or above was very noisy! I was ready to take it off it was so bad. However, after I put the fairing on, the noise is very minimal, nearly the same as nothing at all.

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